If you answered last weeks puzzle, this week will be very easy.
After The Twelve Days of Christmas have ended, there are presents everywhere. Mary can no longer tolerate the squawking birds or leaping lords. She throws John, her "true love" out the door and begins the tiresome process of returning his gifts. Mary returns one gift each day. If she begins to return gifts on the day after Christmas, when will she have returned her last gift?
Remember When:
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to
me:
12 drummers drumming,
11 pipers piping,
10 lords a leaping,
9 ladies dancing,
8 maids a milking,
7 swans a swimming,
6 geese a laying,
5 gold rings,
4 calling birds,
3 French hens,
2 turtle doves, and
A partridge in a pear tree
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20 December 1996